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U.K. and Germany Don't Have Power to Fight China, State Media Says
Newsweek ^ | 8/04/21 | JOHN FENG ON

Posted on 08/04/2021 8:32:41 PM PDT by BenLurkin

The editor of China's Communist Party tabloid has warned German and British warships against taking "willful actions" during their deployments to Asia, suggesting the maneuvers could undermine their governments' relations with Beijing.

Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the hawkish state-run tabloid the Global Times, described Bayern's Indo-Pacific deployment as the result of "the U.S.' political mobilization of the West." Angela Merkel's government announced the voyage in March—in a move described by observers as an attempt to address concerns that her party was too soft on China before elections next month.

"Obviously, Germany does not want to take on China over their frigate's voyage," Hu wrote in an op-ed published on the newspaper's website on Wednesday, saying European warships would "not create a conflict with China" as long as they pass through the South China Sea "normally in accordance with international law."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: china; england; eussr; fourthreich; germany; gernmany; redchina; waronterror
Wouldn't be the first time....


1 posted on 08/04/2021 8:32:41 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

did stone age Afghanistan have the “power” to defeat the US?

war is all about the will to win.


2 posted on 08/04/2021 8:37:07 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: KC_Lion

Pei-Ping.


3 posted on 08/04/2021 8:37:57 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: BenLurkin

Yes, because their wealth on healthcare for the European liberal.


4 posted on 08/04/2021 8:40:59 PM PDT by Jonty30 (My superpower is setting people up for failure, without meaning to. )
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To: BenLurkin

Well duh. Hell they lack to power to take on France or Japan or India.


5 posted on 08/04/2021 8:45:49 PM PDT by DesertRhino (A coup government may not claim the protection of the same constitution it overthrew. )
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To: BenLurkin

Britain, Germany, France and Italy have neither the power, the will or the inclination to fight China or anyone else. Eventually the American people will come to realize that NATO is a useless, paper alliance and will demand its disolution.


6 posted on 08/04/2021 8:51:49 PM PDT by allendale
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China is a nuclear power. Nobody can simply “take them on.”


7 posted on 08/04/2021 8:54:42 PM PDT by bhl
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To: allendale

Trump was headed down that road. The Euros were going to balk at his demands for them to ante up and hold to their promises to fund troops and equipment to the alliance.

It is patently absurd that we have an alliance set up to deter the Russians, while Germany is in bed with them for energy. Time to end the whole thing.


8 posted on 08/04/2021 8:56:30 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: bhl
Yup

9 posted on 08/04/2021 9:05:58 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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German pensioner says... Nicht!



10 posted on 08/04/2021 9:16:42 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: BenLurkin

Let’s you and him fight. - Newsweek


11 posted on 08/04/2021 10:07:29 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: BenLurkin

They don’t have the power to project force because ‘the world is at peace’.

Makes sense to me...too bad it’s not true and was NEVER true.


12 posted on 08/05/2021 4:20:03 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: BenLurkin

Exqueeze me?

Power? Fight?

The UK and Germany kowtow to the ChiComs.


13 posted on 08/05/2021 4:21:40 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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